Two months after the Sandy Hook massacre, America is embroiled in a fierce debate about guns. But apart from a few shell-shocked comments to news media, most Americans have not heard directly from those whose voices may matter most—parents of the deceased children, and educators, first responders, and doctors who confronted the horror that day. On January 30 at Newtown High School, the devastated community testified for six hours before Connecticut state leaders: A mother explaining what her surviving daughter endured. An EMT describing the damage inflicted by a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle. An ER doctor pleading to tell his patients about the health risks of guns. A father recalling “the longest two hours of my life.” Here we’ve assembled a short compilation of powerful moments from the hearing:
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A good piece at Newsday by Cathy Young: U.S. Critic Blind to Putin Media Control. Do some critics of U.S. government policies that may encroach on civil liberties give anti-American foreign states a pass on far worse abuses? The latest subject of such a controversy is Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who has worked with whistle-blower Edward Snowden to disclose the National Security Agency's surveillance ...
For once I don't have much to say about the story I'm posting, because I simply cannot imagine the pain Peter Lanza feels in having a son who was a mass murderer. The father of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter Adam Lanza has spoken publicly for the first time to make the startling claim that he wishes his son had never been born. Giving ...
The teenage girls in the Duggar family aren't just waiting for marriage to have sex, they've vowed not to have their first kisses until their wedding days. In their new book, "Growing Up Duggar," Jill, Jessa, Jana and Jinger Duggar, of TLC's "19 Kids and Counting," divulge their rules of "courtship," and what it's like being from such a large family. More: '19 ...
Florida Republicans are feeling sick to their stomach about a bunch of new poll results on Gov. Rick Scott (R). The new polls show former Gov. Charlie Crist, Scott's very likely Democratic challenger int he general election, with strong support across the state. One poll reported by the Miami Herald, for instance, has Crist beating Scott by 34 percentage points in Miami-Dade and ...
The most obvious signal of conservative acceptance: GOProud, a group of gay and straight conservatives, was invited to the conference this year as guests after being turned down in the past. They've been welcomed. "Not a single person we met or spoke with has expressed disappointment we're here," said co-executive director Matt Bechstein. Recent developments as well as polls help explain the change. ...
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) penned an editorial for Breitbart News on Monday, in which he implicitly critiqued Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) for attempting to take on the mantle of former President and Republican idol Ronald Reagan. More: Rand Paul Hits Ted Cruz Over Foreign Policy, Ronald Reagan Comparison
A Louisiana state lawmaker has filed a measure to keep a state database of people who have had medication abortions, as well as restrict access to surgical abortion through Texas-style regulations aimed to shutter clinics and intimidate physicians. Democratic State Rep. Katrina Jackson's bill, in addition to keeping a state database of people who have had medication abortions, would require physicians who perform ...
theaustralian.com.au Wiki Party website froths for RussiaJARED OWENS THE AUSTRALIAN MARCH 11, 2014 12:00AM THE WikiLeaks Party's website has become fiercely pro-Russian, airing claims that a clandestine NATO-backed, neo-Nazi sniper unit deliberately fired at Ukrainian protesters to help bring about "nuclear war" between Washington and the Kremlin. Articles posted to the website's news section also attack the "heavily Jewish" US government as "psychopaths" and ...
With Getty's announcement that they are offering images for embedding for free - it allows us to see the world in a different light. Hong Kong: skyline overlooking Victoria Harbour. A man sits in front of the city's skyline shrouded in a dense blanket of smog the city's skyline is seen from the peak, a popular touristic spot Smog hangs in the air around ...
In the United States, people can land in prison for life over minor offenses. They can be locked up forever for siphoning gasoline from a truck, shoplifting small items from a department store or attempting to cash a stolen check. Sentences across the United States in the last 30 years have doubled. Roy Lee Clay, for example, received in 2013 a sentence of ...
Add another male lawmaker to the list of those who've made an eyebrow-raising rape comment. Missouri state Sen. David Sater (R) is sponsoring Senate Bill 519, which would amend the current waiting period to have an abortion from 24 hours to 72 hours. Left out of that bill is an emergency exception for cases of rape. "If a woman decides not to go ...
I mentioned this in the page on the American Spectator Article. Some quotes: The film appeals particularly to white liberals who love feeling good about feeling bad about white Western society, and 12 Years a Slave certainly makes them feel bad about white society, while getting nowhere near to the heart of the matter at hand. This Vincent Cooper character is the the kind ...
There's a stunning disconnect between what the GOP says about our economy and its actual current condition. Put succinctly, the Republicans (virtually all of them, not just the tea sippers) are lying through their teeth about the state of the economy. Wouldn't it be nice to live in a country where facts mattered more than blind hatred? Where ignorance wasn't something to be proud ...
Earlier today, Lawhawk noted that Adorama was having a contest where you're to enter your best image from last year. Since the voting is Facebook "Likes" based, my taste in photography has a snowballs chance at the devil's prom ;) But on the other hand, as it has been noted, you can not win if you do not play the game. So after sorting ...
Dinesh D'Souza, the filmmaker behind 2016: Obama's America who is out on $500,000 bond for allegedly violating campaign finance laws, was at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington on Friday to unveil a new trailer for his upcoming release, America, a movie that imagines the United States lost the Revolutionary War and therefore never existed. The trailer, obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, ...
Our Goals According to the 2013 UNICEF Report on Improving Child Nutrition - The Achievable Imperative for Global Progress, one-third of the world's under nourished children are in India and an estimated 61 million, half of the total child population in the country, are stunted due to chronic undernutrition. While progress towards reducing child underweight in India has been made, it has been ...
An amazing historic fortune to be had Ship Model, note the old pre propeller side wheel propulsion design. It carried one of the largest cargoes of gold ever lost at sea, so much so that it was nicknamed the "Ship of Gold." And now Odyssey Marine Exploration has been given court approval to recover what it can from the SS Central America. In 1857, ...
At a Midtown Manhattan steakhouse last June, William A. Ackman, the activist hedge fund manager who had bet a billion dollars on the collapse of the nutritional supplement company Herbalife, offered his latest evidence to a handful of other hedge fund managers about why the company's stock could soon plummet. Mr. Ackman told his dinner companions that Representative Linda T. Sánchez, Democrat of ...
"The World's Only Reliable News," better than Russia Today and the Drudge Report combined! BOLSHAYA YELNIA - An all-female religious sect believe that Vladimir Putin is the reincarnation of St. Paul the Apostle. The religious sect of the Russian Orthodox church consists entirely of women, who meet in a small three story brick building in Bolshaya Yelnia, a small town near the Volga River. ...
The Con­fer­ence Board of Canada has is­sued a re­port ti­tled Re­form­ing Dairy Sup­ply Man­age­ment: The Case for Growth, which pretty much con­demns Canada's sys­tem of sup­ply man­age­ment of dairy prod­ucts. Au­thors, Michael Grant, Richard Barichello, Mark Liew, and Vi­jay Gill, say their re­port "makes the case for growth and sug­gests an eq­ui­table way to wind down sup­ply man­age­ment of dairy prod­ucts. ..." More: ...
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